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Cash Transfers and Health : Evidence from Tanzania
Evans, David K.; Holtemeyer, Brian; Kosec, Katrina - 2016
of a program in Tanzania and finds nuanced impacts. An initial surge in clinic visits after 1.5 years -- due to more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012570724
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Rewarding Safer Sex : Conditional Cash Transfers for HIV/STI Prevention
Dow, William H.; Nathan, Rose; De Walque, Damien - 2014
sexual domain. The Rewarding Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention and Control in Tanzania (RESPECT) study is a … risk of HIV infection. The study enrolled 2,399 participants in 10 villages in rural southwest Tanzania. The intervention …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012572131
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Sources of Financial Assistance for Households Suffering an Adult Death in Kagera, Tanzania
Lundberg, Mattias K. A.; Mujinja, Phare; Over, Mead - 2000
undermine them. The authors investigate the nature of coping mechanisms among a sample of households in Kagera, Tanzania in 1991 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012572894
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Electoral Accountability and Local Government Spending in Indonesia
Dāśagupta, Bāsaba; Kaiser, Kai; Narayan, Ambar; … - 2014
This paper takes advantage of the exogenous phasing of direct elections in districts and applies the double-difference estimator to measure impacts on (i) human development outcomes and (ii) the pattern of public spending and revenue generation at the district level. The analysis reveals that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012573872
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Does Mobile Money Use Increase Firms' Investment? : Evidence from Enterprise Surveys in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania
Islam, Asif; Muzi, Silvia; Rodriguez Meza, Jorge Luis - 2016
nationally representative of the private sector in three East African countries -- Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda -- a positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012570716
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Not Your Average Job : Measuring Farm Labor in Tanzania
Arthi, Vellore; Beegle, Kathleen; De Weerdt, Joachim; … - 2016
by conducting a randomized survey experiment among farming households in rural Tanzania. Agricultural labor estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012570938
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Do Returns to Education Depend on How and Who You Ask?
Beegle, Kathleen; Dillon, Andrew; Serneels, Pieter - 2016
in Tanzania, this paper investigates whether survey methods matter for estimating mincerian returns to education. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012570965
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Skill Use, Skill Deficits, and Firm Performance in Formal Sector Enterprises : Evidence from the Tanzania Enterprise Skills Survey, 2015
Bashir, Sajitha; Tan, Hong W.; Tanaka, Nobuyuki - 2016
Inadequacies in Tanzania's education and training systems compromise the quality of workforce skills, giving rise to …, possibly reflecting the universally acknowledged poor quality of secondary education in Tanzania. Employers use a range of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012571081
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Decomposing Response Errors in Food Consumption Measurement : Implications for Survey Design from a Survey Experiment in Tanzania
Beegle, Kathleen; De Weerdt, Joachim; Friedman, Jed; … - 2016
Tanzania to shed light on the relative influence of these various error types. The observed deviation of measured household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012571157
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What Drives Local Food Prices? : Evidence from the Tanzanian Maize Market
Baffes, John; Kshirsagar, Varun; Mitchell, Donald - 2015
shocks and domestic weather shocks. Overall, it provides evidence that the intermittent imposition of export bans in Tanzania …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012571789